Character creation with Cinema 4D - Part 3 (Rigging)

[@SparkMoment_2]

This is seriously the best rigging tutorial I've seen. Very well edited so it's concise and easy to follow. Thank you!

[@cudak888]

A couple of comments for those going though this (excellent) tutorial: 3:33: This tripped me up late in the game: BigGreenMug *was pressing the shift button* while creating the hand and thumb joints. This allowed them to be created as three-joint objects separate of the existing hierarchy (and also why they were on the floor). If you try to create the hand and thumb joints directly to the wrist joint, you'll only get *two joints,* with the upper thumb and upper finger joints connected as one. I didn't realize this until I wound up on the hand pose morph. At that point, you'll realize this mistake, as the hand will not pose correctly. 21:02: One of the reasons I went for this tutorial is because C4D's auto-rigger for bipeds doesn't include options for fictional creature designs with limited spines (e.g., head/torso/hips all as one - think SpongeBob Squarepants). In doing so, I discovered some pretty significant deformations to the main "body" of the model when I tested rotating the character_ctrl. I was lucky enough to fall down the right Google search to learn about the weight tool, allowing me to remove the femur's twisting motions upon the main body. Just putting this here in case anyone finds themselves in a similar (if rather specific) situation. 26:30: Before you link those Xpresso tags, make sure the animation sliders are pulled to 100% as shown here. For whatever reason, mine were at 0% by default, and when I went to link up the curl data with the pose morph, nothing happened.

[@jadewu5821]

Man, thank you so so much for sharing! This is the most effecient and useful tutorial for this kind of cartoonish character I've ever seen, learnt so much tips through all these 3 parts. Thanks again!

[@JonHutton]

Thanks so much for the feedback! These comments make the effort of putting them together entirely worth it.

[@sergeysavenko2193]

@@JonHutton Your previous tutorial was very useful and easiest to follow, plz make some for realistic animation. I and community will be very pleasure to see the continue! Thx

[@franklinvanreem]

Excellent tutorial, learned so much. Thank you. I've also added a constraint tag to the Eye CTRL otherwise when you move the head, the eyes won't follow!

[@jedbowden4633]

For anyone who is having trouble with the IK POLES because the elbows are in the incorrect direction I messed around and realised my arm was deadstraight instead of on a curve, c4d needs some direction as to where the elbow is going to be pointing so when using the joint tool when it gets to the elbow angle it outwards where you want the elbow to be point for the poles to work correctly. This is something I was stuck on for awhile because the character big green mug was using is correct. so anyone working with straight arm model make sure to add a slight curve to the elbow joint to give c4d a direction or you'll be messing around for hours trying to figure out what the fuck is going on. great tutorial thanks for your knowledge

[@JonHutton]

This is great info and something I should add in. You want your joints original position to be in the shape they bend towards.

[@jedbowden4633]

what's your work around when you have a more detailed character and you want to turn the hand from one side to the other? at the moment my model keeps pinching on the wrist when I try turn the hand 180 degree's so it seems I can only have the hand facing one way when I am animating

[@JonHutton]

www.valkaari.com/?product=delta-mush the best money you'll spend if you do a lot with characters. Saves the hassle of re-weighting over and over.

[@jedbowden4633]

hey mate I sent you a message on facebook via biggreenmug about my problem would be awesome to have your insight on it. cheers mate

[@darviniusb]

This is a general rule for rigging, no matter the software used you always have to make an angle for IK to work.

[@까미요미]

this is the best tutorial for rigging

[@despicableleonardo]

Thank you SO MUCH for taking the time to create this beautiful tutorial. I only knew super basic terms of rigging but I wanted to have a more solid and complete sense of it and this was just perfect. Amazing tutorial and teacher!

[@Ryan.Lohman]

Been using Lightwave since 2005 and C4D since 2012. I could do everything but RIG a character. This is the only tutorial I went through and was able to complete and follow. You are a bit fast- so some of the steps I had to slow the video down to 75%.

[@brentvanhelvoirt3885]

One of the best tutorials series i've ever seen, thanks for that! Maybe a handy tip for you, instead of zero everything out every time, there is a button called 'Reset PSR' which you can add in the menu via Window -> Customization -> Customize Commands... Looking forward to see more videos from you!

[@JonHutton]

Thanks man! Yup I use it in my layouts now.

[@teabagNBG]

def going to do this series...

[@akakikapanadze9465]

love it!!! waiting for Part 4 (animation)

[@JonHutton]

Thanks! I do have something in the works.

[@Robinssoncravents]

Really amazing stuff here! thank you!

[@jonthunder_movies]

Learned a ton throughout this tutorial (pts.1, 2 and 3). Youre a great instructor. Thank you!

[@gamerplayer6523]

i were searching for a tutoriel like that , finally i found the best tutoriel for rigging

[@NS-uj3rt]

It's a well constructed tutorial. Thanks man!

[@RadiationHazard]

Thanks you! Could you please make lesson about rig of face? I mean eyebows, nose, lips.

[@tuckerezekiel4349]

i guess I am kinda randomly asking but do anybody know a good website to stream newly released movies online ?

[@colinblaine2399]

@Tucker Ezekiel I watch on Flixzone. Just search on google for it :)

[@justinmajor1346]

@Colin Blaine yea, I have been using flixzone for months myself :)

[@tuckerezekiel4349]

@Colin Blaine thank you, I signed up and it seems to work :D Appreciate it !

[@colinblaine2399]

@Tucker Ezekiel No problem :)

[@UFandShandsAnimation]

Thanks you so much for this most excellent tutorial! Exactly what I was looking for!

[@JonHutton]

Glad it helped you out.

[@jessiecaldwell7063]

Great tutorial. I do a little character animation occasionally, and every time it's like starting over because I don't do enough to keep the details in my head. This is something I'll go back to a lot I'm sure. Do you have one of these with a more complex facial animation in the mix... using pose morphs for facial expressions and dialog...

[@bsways]

Yes I’m the same. I forget everything. It’s just so much information that it’s impossible to retain unless you’re doing it everyday.

[@Brundle42]

Thanks a lot to upload really high quality contents ! I learned a lot & in a really easy way ! Merci !

[@bsways]

My L hip joint disappears if I make the leg seperate. I cant understand where it goes? any idea? for some reason Im not allowed to have that joint seperate. Its still in the object manager but disappears off the screen. Also I dont get why you added the cube for the foot? you didnt do that for the hand so why the foot?

[@claudioantonelli2725]

Thx dude, just refreshing my riggin game and i forgot so much. Glad you made that vid.

[@jamestogher1098]

This tutorial is great, I was hoping there was going to be an eyelid and blinking section of this series because I'm having trouble finding help on how to set that up. Do you think maybe you can create a separate tutorial going into very simple eyes, eyelids, and blinks? I and probably a lot of others would really appreciate it.

[@JonHutton]

For sure, when I can find the time to pull it together, there's several different routes you can take. Either with joints, pose morphs or even using a multi cloner.

[@jamestogher1098]

Thank you!!

[@studioasakawahkltd4323]

It's a wonderful tutorial. Thank you very much, Sir. However, it's a pity that the video resolution is a little bit too low.

[@petrholusa5855]

Hello, how did you manage the heel in 17:25 that it won't go more downward? In some point it stays on place but mine I go further below. Thanks.

[@isangelsilva]

can add bones when i did bind already? if not so, can i create joints of any other item for example, a backpack? and using constrain to parent to the other rig?

[@jawadsabirkhan2481]

the rigged ik chain of leg moves outwards instead of on z axis it goes to x axis, any solutions?

[@atduong8751]

many thanks, i hope you will have more video about C4D tutorial :D

[@luhram]

Thanks for sharing! This is pure gold!

[@cheukpangchow1678]

what is the different if i use the Cmotion rig?

[@coldenv_IG]

Hi everyone. I ran into an annoying problem. I cant rotate my controller on the hands and so i can't rotate the arm. Move tool to move the amrs works perfectly tho! Any tipps? need help asap thank youu

[@artofdavid9147]

I have a problem ... If I move the Pols, my Elbow Joint is freaking out and twist itself up. How can I solve this? Btw: Thanks for the tutorial. Til that point everything went pretty good. :)

[@raymondjorge5719]

Best rigging tutorial, can you teach us how to align joints?

[@mariusvenn]

Excellent tutorial. Thank you so much!

[@br.je.5704]

I really like this tutorial, now i want to you make a tutorial how you can animate the character like he's talking with someone during 25 or 20 seconds.

[@mohannadhaikal4178]

I have a problem with the jaw, it doesn't open and close like how it does with your character, rather it moves the whole face and get's messed up, please help

[@hmarji]

I have two questions people ask always about 1- what if I want to add cloth on the character what will be the initial state 2-what about the accessories like sunglasses, mouth tooth and similar is it going to move with the object as child without bind it itself to bones ?

[@temporonaut]

I love you Man! Great tutorial! Спасибо!

[@hmarji]

Coool that was including every thing you needed

[@jamestogher1098]

I did manage to bind it, but only the body mesh and I ended up undoing it as it didn't get everything I needed. I'm guessing some hierarchical screw up that I'm not aware I'm doing. My problem now is that in my personal model, my legs, eyes, eyelids, eyebrows, and wings are all separate objects from main body mesh, I have pose morphs to control eyelids and borws, but I don't know how to connect my separate objects without losing my tags. Also I have my wings set up to work in motion and am not sure what the affect would be on that. Honestly my model is simple (it's a fly) and I just need the head, and neck to move up, down and turn left and right. And I need the body to move up and down down slightly as well. (Head and Body are connected) I've been trying the twist deformer but it seems to be distorting my mesh a little to much. Do you know of anyway to maybe smoothing defomers out? Sorry this was a lot of information probably poorly written out, I'm just in a bit of a frustrating jam right now. Thanks.

[@JonHutton]

Shoot me an e-mail, it's in the about section of my channel.

[@apomaster84]

Amazing, I have question, how to make a rig for arms in way that You can switch between IK to FK and have rig in same place as you already animate ?

[@basanthkumar2248]

Thank you so much for the effort in preparing the tutorial, I have a small question regarding the mirror joint- for collar - you choose axes -" xy " for L-hip - you choose axes - "rotate" how does this differ from each other ? Please reply , thanks in advance

[@hwikim3901]

Hello, I like your tutorial very much. Do you have the tutorial of the fourth part (character animation)?Can we share it? Thank you.

[@kristiansteenbock1269]

Hi John, I've been working on "Gary", the main character from Final Space, and his arms and legs are like spaghetti... Do you have any tips for rigging the limbs using a couple of joints but getting it as smooth as there's no actual joints? Or is the only solution to divide the limbs into a lot of joints to get the smoothness? - I've tried with a few joints, but it looks way too stiff... And thanks for the great tutorial!!! The best free tutorial I've seen so far!

love it!.. We wait for the next

[@gandhiayres4560]

Many thanks man, such a helpfull!

[@ariaperdana24]

Great tutorial! Btw, i think it's better to lower your display resolution a bit for screen record though. Text looks too small.

[@JonHutton]

I'll agree with that, recording on a 4k display.

[@Anirguilen-g2k]

can i have the project file 😅☺️

[@officer088]

i am wondering how did you copy and invert the weight of jaw and head when you edited that...

[@tebrazepam]

Thanks for this!

[@rainbowraeee]

Can you use nul's instead of circles for rigging?

[@JonHutton]

Yup, splines are really only beneficial when you need to offset the axis.

[@brainworkpatrickson4034]

I have really learned a lot from you. but I didn't quite the get the uv unwrapping well.. wish there was another way to do it

[@nikto7-b1b]

it's quite a pain to do it in c4d, imho there is a way to do it faster and easier: with another software. c4d is amazing though

[@ariaperdana24]

Do UV Unwrap in another program. C4D built-in UV tools are very outdated and a pain to use, even to do simple unwrapping.

[@DominicSpall]

@17:14 My knee is bending backwards. Can anyone help me

[@aleatorioproductions2839]

y la part 4 ?

[@janilone1388]

I made every step, u made... but my knee is still bending in the wrong direction.. What did I made wrong?

[@rams620]

I am stuck at 25 minutes.. i don't have pose morph. I can't find anything on the internet where to download a plugin called pose morph. I have cinema 4D broadcast r20. No plugin's what so ever :(

[@JonHutton]

Ah, I suppose I should add the caveat that all of the rigging tools are in Studio. It's annoying that Cinema breaks out the different versions.

[@tae_njtae4877]

Sorry, I have a question: I choose all the joints and body except end parts, however, bind is not working for me. here is the pic: drive.google.com/open?id=1Guu0gXnfYktOeRPxxfIw4Dh-79nOhPS2 Thanks for anyone reply.

[@impossiblestudio7189]

Hi, wanna ask if there is a way to make the mouth into other expressions? (such as sad face, angry face etc.)

[@JonHutton]

Yes, check out some tutorials on the pose morph tag. If I find time I will try and do a more in depth facial rig.

[@yandarwin1958]

sangat membantu ...thanks...tutorial yg bagus

[@EliaForce1984ita]

How can I export my character rig to the Source Filmmaker, after rigging it in C4D?

[@albancontrepois]

how did you open the menu at the very beginning ?

[@JonHutton]

Not sure where you are talking about, pressing "V" in the viewport?

[@albancontrepois]

@@JonHutton thanks you for answer. I talking about the menu at the left of object menu. "Axis center center axis to... " I am on the create Ik chain and i can't find it

[@JonHutton]

@@albancontrepois Ahh, I just create my own layouts, there's a link to the layout you can use in the video description or Google how to customize the layout in Cinema.

[@albancontrepois]

@@JonHutton ok i found it thanks

[@arranjacob5482]

Hi Man, is it more beneficial to rig up a character manually rather than with the character tool which automatically rigs up the whole thing? Just was wondering.

[@JonHutton]

You can do whatever way you want. However I find the character tool to be extremely cumbersome/ un-intuitive and it hasn't really been updated since it's release years ago. I think it's beneficial for users to understand what's going on under the hood, that way they can create custom solutions for their projects.

[@arranjacob5482]

Thanks i'll get stuck in

[@jamestogher1098]

Can someone tell me how to bind? I have everything selected but its still greyed out.

[@JonHutton]

Are you selecting the joints and the geometry?

[@맨땅그래픽]

good tutorial~. Thanks a lot~

[@azclassroom13]

Plzz tell me the real size of Cinema 4d software

[@ghostysama1155]

Weighting has always been the most confusing part and hardest part to learn or follow along to

[@NguyenHangofficial]

THANK YOU BRO.!

[@Gerard_V]

Cool tuts!! :P

[@yunusterzi]

Good videos thanks😊

[@FabianKaeser1985]

good job =)))

[@rawnac5036]

audio is very low ...thats the only problem

[@motsregor3723]

THANKS

[@AlexSchellong]

Thank you !

[@JonHutton]

No prob!

[@Ladislav_Cerveny]

Great tut, thank you :-)

[@JonHutton]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@marokidstv7207]

amzing tutorial

[@JonHutton]

Thanks!

[@hieranchauhan5882]

Pre xmas i was on the search for a series as such and i must say. I am looking forward to sitting down and watching all 3 of your tutorials properly. However from a quick glance this looks exactly like what i was looking for. I hope you dont mind but i do have a request if possible. I appreciate this might be a little repetative for you as you have done an character modelling tutorial already but i really really would love to learn how to model the "Superficiton" characters in C4D: www.super-fiction.com/ I have tried to ask other KZbin users to look at this for me however i have had no luck with responses. Worth a shot as it might be something you consider?? Thanks

[@JonHutton]

I think once you understand some basics of modeling you won't find it hard to achieve what they have.

[@Littlevfxx]

had to watch in 75 % but still good

[@c4dlab]

The audio is way to quite, but otherwise great tutorial series

[@JonHutton]

Good to know, what are you watching on may I ask? I try to monitor my levels before output.

[@c4dlab]

I watch it on my PC with the speakers connected to an AMP. All other videos that i am watching on yt, are perfectly fine.

[@JonHutton]

Okay, great it's good to know. Thanks for the feedback!

[@aussieexpertenglish5885]

This guy really knows his stuff. But when it comes to teaching, not so much. He goes so fast and explains himself so inadequately that, for a newbie to the process, trying to follow this has been a nightmare. Ugh!

[@Mr_Marvalous128]

Wonderful tutorial but way too fast for a beginner.

[@westex13]

Dude u are doing things way too fast and u sometimes dont say what u are doing fsss

[@JonHutton]

Apologies, I didn't want to make a 10 hour series. Which you can find on pay sites.

[@westex13]

@@JonHutton My problem was that I wasn't working on the same model. I tried it again following all the parts and it's actually very helpful. Good job and sorry for my previous comment I was frustrated

[@bilianna]

Can someone help me please? The character control (on hip) doesn't seem to be working for me :( the character is not kneeling, it's just moving the whole rig instead.

[@richard_beerens_designs]

Thanks you!